Research Lines

The program has a single area of concentration - Semiotics and General Linguistics - around which its seven research lines are organized. Within each line, you can find the research projects of the faculty members.

Linguistic Form and Meaning: Levels of Analysis and Interfaces

Description and Analysis of Non-Indo-European Languages

 

Description and Analysis of Verbal and Non-Verbal Discourses and Texts

 

Studies of Language Use, Variation, Contact, and Change

 

Studies of Language Acquisition and Learning Processes

 

Historiography and Documentation of Linguistic Theories, Descriptions, and Analyses

 

Computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing

  • Research line dedicated to the study of computational modeling of human language and automatic processing of natural languages; development and improvement of theoretical models, algorithms, and systems of automatic analysis at all levels of linguistic investigation. 

    Faculty:
     Marcelo Barra Ferreira, Marcos Fernando LopesPaulo Chagas de Souza